"So many choices here," Shaughnessy said on Arbella Early Edition. "[Manny] made good on an eight-year, $160 millon deal. Two World Series championships. In the history of baseball, very few of those big-money deals came home."

Tanguay's choice? Manny's teammate, Pedro Martinez.

"I was at Logan Airport when Pedro Martinez arrived from Montreal," Tanguay recalled. "Sure, he wanst the guy in the World Series [in 2004] he had been. But before Pedro, it had been Jack Clark or Matt Young...Even Danny Cater for Sparky Lyle."